The Ecuadorian national was arrested in February 2012 a month after the girl and her father came forward alleging that Fajardo sexually assaulted the girl, 13, eight years earlier when she was only 5, his arrest affidavit said.

The girl's father said he came forward two years after his daughter told he and the girl's mother that Fajardo had sexually assaulted her when he lived at their Stamford home, the affidavit said.

The girl told Stamford investigators that the incident has haunted her for years. At times she would try to hurt herself by pulling her hair or pinching herself when she thought about what Fajardo did to her, the affidavit said. The girl said she has even considered killing herself, but never did it because she was worried about what it would do to her family.

The girl's brother also told his mother that Fajardo, a married father with three children, grabbed his private area when he was younger, the affidavit said. The youth, however, would not cooperate with police in the investigation and the matter was dropped.

After describing what Fajardo did to her, she said Fajardo told her not to tell anyone about it. She finally told her mother what happened when she was in the fifth-grade, according to the arrest affidavit.

The girl's father and mother said they were reluctant to come forward because they were not in the country legally and were afraid of being deported. The father also said that his relative threatened him by saying that he knew where the kids went to school.

Fajardo-Pulgarin has been held in jail in lieu of $100,000 bond since his arrest.